Forme Furniture Type
1/ Furniture: Pieces of wood or metal placed around or between metal type to make blank spaces and fasten the matter in the chase. 2/ Quads: (Originally quadrat) is a metal spacer used in letterpress typesetting. The Generic name for two common sizes of spaces in typography. An em quad is a space that is one em wide and one em in height the same as the typeface. 3/ A Lead or Reglet is a piece of Lead or wooden spacing material used in typesetting, to provide spacing between paragraphs.
1/ Furniture: Pieces of wood or metal placed around or between metal type to make blank spaces and fasten the matter in the chase. 2/ Quads: (Originally quadrat) is a metal spacer used in letterpress typesetting. The Generic name for two common sizes of spaces in typography. An em quad is a space that is one em wide and one em in height the same as the typeface. 3/ A Lead or Reglet is a piece of Lead or wooden spacing material used in typesetting, to provide spacing between paragraphs.
Furniture Type Em and Furniture Type En. Designed by using the pieces of letterpress furniture usually hidden, to create letter shapes. The square nature of the type means it could be used as a low resolution type.
